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Goddam predictive text? Delivering Sherwood when the only logical name is Lerner. And Tom Fox.

You were wrong. Martin O’Neill was the last time. This will be infinitesimally better.

How weird that Sir Doug passed on the very same day. Is it an omen for a new era? Thrilled to buy my Swansea ticket today. Got yours?

Exactly. Randy Lerner failed Lambert and utterly undermined then wrecked him and also our great club.

Hurray. Dua Lipa agreed that we would be Bad Together! Or whatever his name is. I’ve had 25 notes on Deano since Bye Bye Brucie Day.

And Anton Ferdinand running Community Relations.

Does it stand for French Former Player who began his career at Monaco?!

Deep fried Mars bars? Or cans of Irn Bru?

In the words of Dexy’s Midnight Runners: Oh Deano, Woh-oh-oh Deano-o !

Gregg Evans adamant that Thierry is going to Monaco.

If it’s the Daily Mail, they are more likely to be moaning about ‘a Frenchman, coming over here, stealing a job from an Englishman’!

Sky Sports: “Thierry Henry undecided.” Stop being messed around and go and get Dean Smith, Mr Purslow!

The aqueducts.

The under-23s won 8-0 just 24 hours ago. The junior team clinched four out of five Southern Championships between 2007 and 2012, before the format changed to the Professional Development League. The side also won the NextGen Series in 2013, a Europe-wide tournament for elite academies. First-team players Gabriel Agbonlahor, Gary Gardner, Andre Green and Jack Grealish all came through the youth system at the club, as well as former players Ciaran Clark, Gary Cahill, Gareth Barry, Thomas Hitzlsperger, Darius Vassell, Craig Gardner, Marc Albrighton, Andreas Weimann and Steven Davis amongst many others. The Villa academy also developed England and Liverpool striker Daniel Sturridge and Willem II midfielder Daniel Crowley.

This is telling. “I think there are lots of things the new manager will need to address," McDonald said. “All the players, individually, need to tidy themselves up. The team as a group need to tidy themselves up. There are individual mistakes from a different player each game. I'm sure it will get tidied up very quickly. If it does, this team will go up the table very quickly." Not a fan of Brucey’s complacent regime, Kev? #TidyUpVilla

0 out of an available 3 points = dropped points, whichever team is playing. And in this league, promotion comes with winning 66% of the available points. Villa are at 41%.

And definitely to approach yet more dropped points.

Grim. The new manager is going to have to be really, really, really good. So good that he can transform one of the many spare wingers into a centre back.

“Kevin, how did you get the team motoring down the right road, which Steve Bruce was so confused about navigating?” “I simply took the handbrake off.”

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Blimey. 8pints is an unexpected pseudonym for Steve Bruce.

Bookies lay out their odds, so they were wildly wrong about Henry this afternoon. And lazies speculate, money follows them, then bookies react. As a matter of fact.

Dean Smith in, from nowhere after the Bruce news, to favourite with most bookies. Henry drifting longer. Allardyce just lazy guesswork from bookies and journos. C’mon Deano!

Dean Smith all the way, in my opinion. Not a time to take risks nor give anyone with no experience a chance.

Millwall and Norwich away and Swansea at home. No game plan, no formation, no first team, no Chester, no tactics, no idea... See you all again after Dean Smith is finally appointed for the 19-20 promotion season.